WaPo’s observations about atheistic families and individuals:
* As individuals, atheists tend to score high on measures of intelligence, especially verbal ability and scientific literacy.
* They tend to raise their children to solve problems rationally, to make up their own minds when it comes to existential questions and to obey the golden rule.
* They are more likely to practice safe sex than the strongly religious are
* They are less likely to be nationalistic or ethnocentric.
* They value freedom of thought.
* Denmark, which is among the least religious countries in the history of the world, consistently rates as the happiest of nations.
* Studies of apostates — people who were religious but later rejected their religion — report feeling happier, better and liberated in their post-religious lives.
* As individuals, atheists tend to score high on measures of intelligence, especially verbal ability and scientific literacy.
* They tend to raise their children to solve problems rationally, to make up their own minds when it comes to existential questions and to obey the golden rule.
* They are more likely to practice safe sex than the strongly religious are
* They are less likely to be nationalistic or ethnocentric.
* They value freedom of thought.
* Denmark, which is among the least religious countries in the history of the world, consistently rates as the happiest of nations.
* Studies of apostates — people who were religious but later rejected their religion — report feeling happier, better and liberated in their post-religious lives.
1cor 26 For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.
What a stupid article.
C.S. Lewis was an atheist that converted to Christianity and became a much happier, joyful, creative, productive person with many deep friendships.
The difference is that atheists are moral relativists. There are no absolutes for these people except material gratification. Singer debated that because of that whatever they decide is “right” becomes right, which includes killing infants after birth, if the parent wills it.
Atheism only allows arbitrary laws created by the most powerful. It will be based on politics and power and will always be immoral as defined by our Constitution which is about morality in law—Just Law—which is only found in Judeo/Christian ethics.
Stalin was an atheist.....and Hitler was a pagan occultist. When you dump moral absolutes (which come from the Bible) you can never be a moral person and give dignity and worth to all humans.
they are mixing apples and oranges.
Upper class and wealthy refined atheists are being compared to the rest of us uneducated bitter types who cling to our guns and religion.